A checkmark on the ‘bucket list’
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Last Friday, Keene (NH) State College gave Harriet Richardson Ames a diploma at age 100. She had taken classes at three universities and colleges in New Hampshire while working as a school teacher, but stopped after her eyesight began failing in the '70s.
But a college degree was on her "bucket list."
On Saturday, a day after getting her degree, Harriet Richardson Ames died.
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